(Luke 7:36-50) Let Down Your Hair

LET DOWN YOUR HAIR

MARY

LET DOWN YOUR HAIR

TOO LONG

HAVE MEN SHACKLED YOU

AND HIDDEN YOUR BEAUTY

LET DOWN YOUR HAIR

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MESSAGE

THAT WHAT GOD CREATES

IS GOOD

LET DOWN YOUR HAIR

THE TOMB OF LAZARUS WAS OPEN

AND AIRING

THE STONE ROLLED AWAY

THE STENCH OF DEATH

WAS MASKED BY SPICES

BUT THE PARTY

WAS IN THE HOUSE

CELEBRATING LAZARUS RETURN

BUT MARY FELT A SADNESS

A PREMONITION REALLY

SOMETHING

WOMEN CAN DO

SHE SENSED DEATH IN THE AIR

AND MOVED BY SOME ETERNAL

FEMININE FORCE

TOOK NARD

A FUNERAL SPICE

WASHED HIS FEET FIRST

WITH TEARS

DRIED THEM

WITH HER LOOSENED HAIR

AND ANOINTED HIM FOR DEATH

SO MUCH WASTE THE ENRONS CRIED

AND GRASPED THE MONEY BAG

BUT JESUS SAID

PROTECTING MARY

THE POOR

WILL ALWAYS BE HERE

BUT YOU ONLY BURY ME ONCE.

FRANK A VOLLMER

Doves (Genesis 8:11

DOVES

THE SHIPS IN BIBLE DAYS

ALWAYS SAILED ALONG THE SHORE

IN SIGHT OF LAND

THEY WERE AFRAID

TO GO OUT INTO THE DEEP

THEIR FEAR

WAS TO BE BLOWN OFF COURSE

DRIVEN OUT TO SEA

AND SEE NO LAND

BUT AS MEN WHO KNEW THE SEA

THEY CARRIED DOVES

THEY'D RELEASE THEM

AND IF THEY FOUND NO LAND

THEY'D RETURNED TO THEIR MATE

IF THEY FOUND LAND

THEY'D RETURN WITH GREENERY

IN THEIR CROP

AS A TREAT FOR THEIR MATE

AND THE SAILORS WOULD KNOW

FROM THE FLIGHT OF THE DOVE

WHERE LAND

AND SAFETY WERE

AND THE GREEN GROWTH OF HOPE

FITTING THAT THE SPIRIT

SHOULD BE SHOWN AS A DOVE

SHOWING US THEY WAY

WHEN WE'RE LOST A SEA

FRANK A VOLLMER

Black Pheasant (Luke 13:34)

WE WERE SURPRISED WHEN WE FOUND IT

THE CARBONIZED REMAINS OF THE PHEASANT

THE FIRE HAD BEEN INTENSE

BUT SHORT LIVED

CREATED BY THE STORM

EXTINGUISHED BY THE STORM

BUT THE INTERIM HAD BEEN EXTREME

FED BY THE DEBRIS OF THE DROUGHT

SO REAL

IT LOOK LIFELIKE

EXCEPT FOR THE COLOR

IT LOOKED ASLEEP

BUT WHEN WE KNELT TO TOUCH IT

IT FELL APART

AND FOUR CHICKS

RAN OUT FROM UNDER

PERHAPS

BECAUSE

WE HAD SEEN ENOUGH OF DEATH THAT DAY

WE WERE MOVED TO TEARS

SHE COULD HAVE FLOWN

SHE COULD HAVE SAVED HERSELF

SHE STAYED

GATHERED HER BROOD

UNDER HER WINGS

AND BROUGHT THEM THROUGH THE FIRE

WE GATHERED THE CHICKS

THEY WOULD SURVIVE

REST WELL MOTHER

YOU HAVE TAUGHT US

WELL

FRANK A VOLLMER

(John 18 : 38) The "C" Word

WHEN PILATE

FIRST SAID THE C WORD

TO YOU JESUS

DID YOU STEP BACK

BLINK

PRAY FOR COURAGE

DID THE WORLD GO AWAY FOR AN INSTANT

SAYING YES LORD JESUS

ENDEARS YOU TO MY HEART

IN OUR MUTUAL PASSIONS

I FIND MUCH THAT IS SIMILAR

STRUGGLING UP YOUR HILL

YOU FELL OFTEN

STRUGGLING UP MY HILL

I FIND MANY WEAK TIMES

YOU HAD SIMON

I HAVE THE DOCTOR

YOU HAD THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM

I HAVE THE NURSES

WHO HAVE PUT AWAY THEIR WAILING RAGS

AND BECOME TRUE PROFESSIONALS

A TRIBUTE TO YOU

WHO RAISED THE STATUS OF WOMEN

BY BEING BORN

AND THEREBY SAYING

THAT ALL CREATION IS BEAUTIFUL

AND THEREFORE EQUAL

AND ON THE HILLTOP

YOU DESTROYED THE CANCER OF…

THERE I'VE SAID THE WORD

YOU DESTROYED THE CANCER OF MY SIN

YOU SET ME FREE

TO LIVE A HOLY AND A WHOLLY LIFE

AND ON MY HILLTOP

LET ME SAY WITH YOU

FATHER IT IS FINISHED

CURED OR AT LEAST IN REMISSION

AND WE SHALL WALK

OUR EASTER MORNINGS

SIDE BY SIDE

FRIENDS AS ALWAYS

WE HAVE WALKED

THROUGH THE DARK PORTAL

AND FOUND SUN SHINE

BUT FIRST

WHEN PILATE SAID THE C WORD TO YOU JESUS

DID YOU STEP BACK

BLINK

PRAY FOR COURAGE

DID THE WORLD GO AWAY FOR AN INSTANT

SAYING YES LORD JESUS

ENDEARS YOU TO MY HEART

BECAUSE SO DID I

FRANK A VOLLMER

When Jesus Said (Matthew 26:11)

WHEN JESUS SAID

YOU HAVE THE POOR

ALWAYS WITH YOU

HE DIDN'T MEAN IT AS AN EXCUSE

TO DO NOTHING

BUT RATHER A REASON

FOR HIS DEATH

RATHER TO DESCRIBE

A THORN

IN THE BODY MYSTIC

THE POOR YOU HAVE ALWAYS WITH YOU

A SAD COMMENT ON HIS DEATH

THIS IS NOT THE WORLD GOD WANTS

YOUR KINGDOM COME

YOUR WILL BE DONE

ON EARTH

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

ARE WE DOING GOD’S WILL

ARE WE SAYING

GOD’S WILL IS IMPOSSIBLE

ARE WE SAYING

GOD HAS GIVEN US

AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK

AN IMPOSSIBLE PRAYER

THE LAST WORDS CHRIST HEARD

HANGING ON THE CROSS

WERE DREAMER

OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY

WERE THEY TRUE

Sodom (Ezekiel 16:49)

Ezekiel 16:49

Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness,

while the poor and needy suffered outside her door

SODOM

SOMEWHERE ON THE ROAD TO SODOM

THERE’S A SIGN

TELLING THE WHY OF SODOM’S RUIN

Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness,

while the poor and needy suffered outside her door

ARE WE NOT IN THE SAME POSITION

WHILE CHILDREN STARVE

WE ARGUE ABOUT SEXUAL PROCLIVITY

WHILE INDUSTRY

DEFRAUDS WORKERS

OF PAY AND PENSION

WE PIOUSLY PRATE

THAT MAN IS CREATED

IN GOD’S IMAGE

PREACHING CHRISTIANITY

WE VOTE FOR WAR

AND GLOAT AT VICTORY

SHOULD WE NOT KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY

LEST ANOTHER RUIN AWAIT US

FRANK A VOLLMER

A BRIDGE

Jesus (peace be upon him) has said, 'The world is a bridge. Pass over it, but do not settle down on it!

THE ABOVE IS AN ASIAN QUOTE OF JESUS

FROM ITS FORMAT IT APPEARS TO BE MUSLIM

THE MUSLIMS HONOR JESUS AS A GREAT PROPHET

BUT NOT THE SON OF GOD

ALLAH IS ONE

REGARDLESS OF ITS ORIGIN

THE MESSAGE SPEAKS TRUE

WE ARE COMMITTED TO MAKE THIS JOURNEY

FROM ONE SHORE TO ANOTHER

FROM BIRTH

TO THE HEREAFTER

AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO NOT WALK ALONE

BUT TO HELP

THE BLIND

LAME

SLOW

WEAK

TO MAKE THE JOURNEY

IN BUDDHISM THERE IS A PRINCIPAL

CALLED BODHISATTVA

WHERE A PERSON DEFERS CROSSING THE BRIDGE

TO HELP OTHERS ACROSS

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND CHRISTIANITY

IS THAT ONE IS A SAINT

THE OTHER IS A NORMAL HUMAN BEING

TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING

THOSE WHO BUILD ON THE BRIDGE

IMPEDE THE PILGRIM

BY CHARGING TOLL

OR BLOCKING THE WAY

MAKING THE JOURNEY

HARDER THAN IT HAS TO BE

THE CHRISTIAN HAS TO FIGHT

THESE HOUSES ON THE BRIDGE

THESE OBSTRUCTIONS TO A MAN’S JOURNEY

THEY ARE USELESS AND DECAY IN TIME

AND TRAP THEIR OWNERS

IN THEIR DEBRIS

WHETHER JESUS SAID THIS I DO NOT KNOW

BUT THE MESSAGE IS TRUE

AND MATCHES OTHER THINGS HE HAS SAID

FRANK A VOLLMER